Estancia High engineering team builds a better car, wins Energy Invitational
Estancia High School seniors in Team Havoc, advised by Gerald Rizza, far right, won first place in the 2021 Vital Link Engineering Design Competition.
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Estancia High School engineering students were recently tasked with designing and building a vehicle large enough to accommodate a driver that would travel as fast and as far as possible on only $1 worth of energy.
In record time, 16 seniors participating in their first 2021 Vital Link Energy Invitational Engineering Design Competition working together as “Team Havoc,” had retrofitted a simple go-kart into an electric car that based on initial testing is capable of reaching speeds up to 30 mph while using only 1.0 kilowatt-hour for more than an hour of continuous driving.
Local paramedics receiving specialized training
Author of the article: Ron Grech
Publishing date: May 07, 2021 • 2 hours ago • 3 minute read • Timmins paramedics Natalie Robitaille and Ryan Roy check their equipment while loading a stretcher into an ambulance at the Cochrane District Social Services Administration building. Cochrane District is one of nine regions across the province approved for a pilot program that will see paramedics extending services to palliative care patients. RICHA BHOSALE/The Daily Press jpg, TD
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Palliative care patients who call 9-1-1 will no longer have to be transported to hospital under a pilot project announced this week by the provincial government.
Charged up: Bend bike shops seeing demand spike for electric bikes
Just this month, we’ve sold so many bikes it’s crazy
BEND, Ore. (KTVZ) – Electric bikes are a hot product in Bend, as more people experience the outdoors with an assist to their pedal power.
Eric Power, the owner of Bend Velo bike shop, said Tuesday the demand for electric bikes at his store has doubled within the last year.
Power says he believes it s due to people being outside more during the pandemic, and also trying to be eco-friendlier around the city.
“An e-bike can really assist in that, because you don’t necessarily arrive to work all sweaty and tired, Power said. You’re fresh, you got to ride in and again, you’re helping out the environment by not driving a car.”.
The Yurok Tribe recently donated a brand new, fully equipped fire truck to the Klamath Fire Protection District.
âThis donation will greatly enhance the health and safety of all residents in southern Del Norte County and northern Humboldt County,â said Joseph L. James, the chairman of the Yurok Tribe. âCOVID-19 has shown us that we need to enhance our local emergency response capacity because we canât necessarily depend on anyone else. The contribution to the Klamath Fire Protection District is one way that we are supporting our local first responders.â
âWhether itâs a structure fire or medical aid call, the Klamath Fire Protection District is always the first to respond. It was an easy decision to invest in the future of the department,â said Ryan Ray, the Yurok Tribal Councilâs Requa district representative.
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LEWISTON The owners of JAR Cannabis Co. need more stock to open more stores, so they’re investing $3.18 million to turn warehouse space on Westminster Street into a recreational grow facility and eventual company headquarters.
Joel Pepin of Auburn, one of the three partners, said Wednesday that the size, zoning and utilities, as well as all three owners’ local connections, made the space a great choice.
Joel Pepin stands inside JAR Cannabis Co.’s Windham medical marijuana storefront.
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“For us, the past couple of years, the company’s undergone tremendous growth,” Pepin said. “We’re really proud to be in the position that we’re in, certainly lucky to be doing this in Maine at a time adult use is launching, so it certainly is a culmination of being at the right place at the right time.”